Ukraine PM thanks Germany for solidarity and calls for more weapons

Denys Shmyhal's comments on visit to Berlin show easing of tensions over response to Russian invasion

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Ukraine's prime minister has thanked Germany for its solidarity in the face of the Russian invasion while calling for more weapons, in a sign of easing tensions between Berlin and Kyiv.

Denys Shmyhal, who was welcomed by the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, with military honours in Berlin on Sunday, is the most senior Ukrainian official to visit the German capital in months, since Kyiv accused the EU's biggest economy of doing too little.